Chapter Forty
Vatican City, Rome
Colonel Renauld was angry. He was angry with his subordinates, he was angry with Major Dupont and above all he was angry with himself. How could I have allowed this to happen? he reflected. Since the body had been discovered in the Clementine Chapel along the perimeter of St. Paul’s Basilica he had taken it upon himself to shoulder most of the blame. He certainly felt guilty that his security arrangements had not been sufficient to prevent the tragic cold-blooded murder of Cardinal Alphonso.
It was now seven-thirty in the morning as he made his way back to his office from the mortuary. Along with Major Dupont, he had been up all night since the body was discovered shortly after ten o’clock the previous evening. Fortunately, from a containment point of vi
